One of the Artists of the Year: Anne Bertram. “On the adaptation end of the spectrum, Anne Bertram penned the multifaceted Frankenstein Incarnate: The Passions of Mary Shelley for Theatre Unbound.” (City Pages)

This activity was made possible in part by funds provided by the Minnesota Regional Arts Council through an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.

Free Children's Theatre Class with purchase of regular ticket, Post-show talk: "Desire in the Reasonable Society," a talk by Ted W. Lockhart, Ph.D.: Utopian thinkers of Mary Shelley's period, including her father William Godwin and husband Percy Shelley, grappled with the problem of human desire and the ability of social institutions to minimize their disruptive effects. Recognition of this problem was one of the reasons why Marx and Engels believed that the "education of desire" was an essential component of a stable society.

November 5, 2007

7:30 pm

Pay What You Can

November 6, 2007

10:30 am

Student Matinee

November 9, 2007

7:30 pm

November 10, 2007

7:30 pm

November 11, 2007

2:00 pm

Post-show talk: "Echoes of Mary Wollstonecraft in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," a talk by Professor Geri Chavis: Mary Shelley was keenly aware of the writings of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft's work, especially A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, can illuminate our understanding of Frankenstein, especially in its depiction of Victor Frankenstein and the women characters, Safie, Elizabeth, and Justine.